Scratch one Icon A5

Watch out for Service Letter 1

SUBJECT: Information pertinent to operations.

MODELS AFFECTED: Serial number 2, and all subsequent Icon A5 production models

TIME OF COMPLIANCE: Immediately

DETAILS: To maintain airworthiness, avoid landing in open bodies of water with any amount of chop or any indication other than glassy water.
 
Oxman said:
Damn it...just went down the rabbit hole. Icon A5... (hey I bet I could fish from that)...to Jetski fishing...to Craig Craft boats.... to 16ft Boston Whaler....to 18ft Dolphin Boat...
30 minutes later.
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My dad has a 16ft Boston Whaler. He's had it since the 70's. He was really attracted to it because of the marketing in the 70's where they cut it in half and it would still float.
 
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KLB said:
My dad has a 16ft Boston Whaler. He's had it since the 70's. He was really attracted to it because of the marketing in the 70's where they cut it in half andbit would still float.
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CFI A&P said:
...DETAILS: To maintain airworthiness, avoid landing in open bodies of water with any amount of chop or any indication other than glassy water.
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Seriously. The thing is fragile toy, not a proper seaplane. Happy nobody got hurt, but damn, it's not surprising. And this one was flown by a company guy, just wait till all the never before pilots are taking their fresh iCON's out. Go get a cub.
 
Adler said:
Seriously. The thing is fragile toy, not a proper seaplane. Happy nobody got hurt, but damn, it's not surprising. And this one was flown by a company guy, just wait till all the never before pilots are taking their fresh iCON's out. Go get a cub.
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Sadly this is probably the first of many incidents. Marketing it as a vogue toy isn't going to help it gain success.
 
Icon promptly on their FB page, posted that it looks like pilot error. Yet another marketing blunder by Icon. How they have not closed their doors yet is beyond me.
 
We have an Icon flight center here at Peter O' Knight. I just keep thinking with all of these low altitude flights over the bay, they're bound to take a seagull to the windscreen before too long.
 
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"Yeah, but I'm sayin', that TruCoat, you don't get it and you get oxidization problems. It'll cost you a heck of lot more'n five hundred--
You're sittin' here, you're talkin' in circles! You're talkin' like we didn't go over this already!
Yeah, but this TruCoat--
 
Adler said:
Seriously. The thing is fragile toy, not a proper seaplane. Happy nobody got hurt, but damn, it's not surprising. And this one was flown by a company guy, just wait till all the never before pilots are taking their fresh iCON's out. Go get a cub.
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Why do you hate Cubs so much? ;)
 
Has anyone here actually had a close-up, touchy-feely with an A5 or flown one?

I was in talks with them two years ago to be one of their demo pilots (before the user agreement debacle), but couldn't make it work for a number of reasons and have still never seen one in person.
 
Hacker15e said:
Has anyone here actually had a close-up, touchy-feely with an A5 or flown one?

I was in talks with them two years ago to be one of their demo pilots (before the user agreement debacle), but couldn't make it work for a number of reasons and have still never seen one in person.
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I flew a F900 for a gentleman that had one on order. We went to look at it at OSH in 2015 I think it was. Nice reception and free beer, woot. (we chartered a light twin to get there) Anyway, I spoke with a bunch of the engineers there and by the end of the evening I had determined that no one had any idea what they were talking about, that I had no desire to fly one and I wouldn't touch the airplane or fly it with the owner.

The root failure of this project IMO was the premise that anyone could fly it without even obtaining a basic private pilots license. It's still as seaplane, its still gonna kill you with the quickness if you aren't on your game. No offence to you Hacker15e but this is what happens when a fighter pilot takes on GA. "It's so easy a caveman could do it!"

No, its easy for talented people like you, for the guy who can't even figure out how to sail without motoring upwind, not so easy.

All the hazards of bush aviation and the marine environment wrapped into one. Combine that with pilots who are told from the beginning, "anyone can do this, it's easy" and bad things are going to happen.
 
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